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Tonight was the first session of Murdock's BESM game. We did a bunch of stuff, but it was all utterly futile. Snowwy, who'd complained about not being able to min-max his character properly, demonstrated a ludicrously twinky combo... that I plan to pick up for myself next time it's time to add points to characters, so that I can do enough damage to destroy the earth, one time in six.
( game summary )
Basically, it seemed sometimes that everything we tried was futile, for no apparent reason. Our characters had powers that should have let us track and stop the enemy, and get the girl to talk, but they just didn't work. Is that how BESM is supposed to be run?
With that and the stupidly unbalanced combat system (4 pt for a level 1 melee attack requiring 5 energy points to fire and doing backblast damage in a radius at a -1 bonus to accuracy does 90 points of damage. 1 pt 'Kensai' skill gives you a -3 bonus to accuracy when trying to hit a 'vital area'. Hitting a vital area is a +4 penalty, and gives a MINIMUM of double damage, and up to quadruple. Quadruple damage will be 360 points, enough to badly damage a large planet, and destroy it after three hits. Take that as an item of power, for 2 character points. Or instead, for the same price, you could have the ability to create a sight-only illusion of a human-sized figure.) I have to say I'm extremely anti-impressed with BESM.
( game summary )
Basically, it seemed sometimes that everything we tried was futile, for no apparent reason. Our characters had powers that should have let us track and stop the enemy, and get the girl to talk, but they just didn't work. Is that how BESM is supposed to be run?
With that and the stupidly unbalanced combat system (4 pt for a level 1 melee attack requiring 5 energy points to fire and doing backblast damage in a radius at a -1 bonus to accuracy does 90 points of damage. 1 pt 'Kensai' skill gives you a -3 bonus to accuracy when trying to hit a 'vital area'. Hitting a vital area is a +4 penalty, and gives a MINIMUM of double damage, and up to quadruple. Quadruple damage will be 360 points, enough to badly damage a large planet, and destroy it after three hits. Take that as an item of power, for 2 character points. Or instead, for the same price, you could have the ability to create a sight-only illusion of a human-sized figure.) I have to say I'm extremely anti-impressed with BESM.
